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Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.

Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
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ISBN 9781846276316 (paperback)
Name Tawada, Yōko, 1960- author.
Uniform title Etüden im Schnee. English
Title Memoirs of a polar bear / Yoko Tawada ; translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
Published London : Portobello Books Ltd., 2017.
©2016
Description 252 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary The Memoirs of a Polar Bear is a novel that stars three generations of talented writers and performers who happen to be polar bears. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous, both as circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In Chapter One, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In Chapter Two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her son--the last of their line--is Knut, born in Chapter Three in a Leipzig zoo, but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and "the intimacy of being alone with my pen."
Subjects Polar bear -- Fiction
Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
Genre Allegories
Other Names Bernofsky, Susan translator.
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